Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870 by Lisa Norling
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Captain Ahab Had a Wife
Captain Ahab Had a Wife
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During the 18th and 19th centuries, the whaling industry of New England sent thousands of men to distant seas. This work examines letters and diaries, shipowners' records, church records, newspapers and city directories, to reconstruct the lives of the Cape Horn widows left behind onshore.
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CIN0807825611G
9780807825617
0807825611
Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870 by Lisa Norling
Used - Good
Hardback
The University of North Carolina Press
20001031
392
N/A
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